The Royal Exchange Contayning sundry aphorismes of phylosophie, and golden principles of morrall and naturall quadruplicities. Vnder pleasant and effectuall sentences, dyscouering such strange definitions, deuisions, and distinctions of vertue and vice, as may please the grauest cittizens, or youngest courtiers. Fyrst written in Italian, and dedicated to the Signorie of Venice, nowe translated into English, and offered to the cittie of London. Rob. Greene, in Artibus Magister.

Tyranne. A Tyrant.

Foure things doth a Tyrant alwaies.

• 1. He destroyeth the good.
• 2. He driueth away poore men.
• 3. He aduaunceth the wicked.
• 4. And suppresseth vertue.

Heliogabalus after hee was possessed of the Empire, sought straight the ouerthrow of such as were vertuous, and preferred to dignitie, bawdes, gluttons, and such like.

Foure things doo op∣presse a Tyrant.

• 1. Want of v••••tuales.
• 2. Too much oppre••sion.
• 3. To attempt warre.
• 4. And to abandon iustice.

Foure Tyrants haue beene more cruell then any other.

• ...1. Herod.
• ...2. Attyla.
• ...3. Nero.
• ...4. Esselynus.

Foure things deceiue a Tyrant, in thinking he hath y^• which hee hat•• not.

• 1. The fauour of the people.
• 2. Nobilitie of fame.
• 3. Aboundance of riches.
• 4. A•••• will to rule.

A Tyrant causeth foure effects.

• 1. Hee causeth dissention amongst the Cittizens.
• 2. Oppresseth thē which are wise.
• 3. Spoyleth the rich.
• 4. And pulleth downe the mighty.

Four things hinder the rule of a Ty∣rant.

• 1. Concorde of Cittizens.
• 2. Store of rich men.
• 3. The fore••••ght of the wise.
• 4. And the courage of the mightie.

Foure things doo in∣crease with the life of a Tyrant.

• 1. The seueritie of his actions.
• 2. The styng of pryde.
• 3. The affliction of his subiects.
• 4. And the disdaine of his nobles.

Four customes vsuall in a Tyrant.

• 1. To be headlong in cruel actiōs.
• 2. To be impatient in hearing.
• 3. To wyll that all things come from him.
• 4. To bee reprehended of no man.

Foure things are profitable for the subiect of a tyrant.

• 1. To honour the mightie.
• 2. Not to o••fend any man.
• 3. To speake little.
• 4. And liue solitarie.